Edmond Byrne and Adi Toch

Glass maker Edmond Byrne and metal artist Adi Toch collaborate to combine glass and metal, creating sculptural vessels and objects.  As two makers with distinct practices and material languages, their work explores the dialogue created when substances and forms merge through the joint working method and unique processes that they have developed. The artists investigate ways in which the materials react, move, fuse, stain and mirror, creating a new visual language of textures, colours and forms.

 

Edmond Byrne and Adi Toch received The RDS Award for their collaborative work in metal and glass and their joint work was acquired by the V&A and Ulster Museum from Collect Open 2020.

 

Edmond Byrne has worked with Cavaliero Finn since 2021.  He is an Irish glassblower producing artworks and vessels from mould blown glass.  Edmond has an experimental approach to process and making that explores tactility, colour psychology, sustainability, and digital craft.

Edmond has an MA from the Royal College of Art, Ceramics and Glass and a B.Des in Craft Design from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.  Edmond's work is exhibited internationally and is included in public collections; the V&A Museum, Ulster Museum and The National Collection, Ireland. He has received prestigious awards including the RDS Irish Craft Award, the Dan Klein Memorial Award, and the Pilchuck Partner Scholarship.

 

Adi Toch is a London based metal artist exploring the realm of objects and our close relationships with them. She applies historic techniques and an experimental approach, with particular interest and attention to surface treatments. Adi investigates an embodied experience that engages the viewer through sensorial interaction and often employs the transformative, sonic, and reflective qualities of metal.

 

Adi is a lecturer at the Royal College of Art and teaches and exhibits worldwide. Her work is held in major private and public collections including the V&A Museum, The Crafts Council, The Goldsmiths’ Company, London Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Birmingham Museum, National Museums Scotland, National Museum Wales, Ulster Museum Belfast and The Jewish Museum New York.

 

She was a finalist in the first Loewe Craft Prize and received prestigious awards for her work including a Gold Award from The Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council UK and The European Prize for Applied Arts, 2018. In 2021 Adi was the recipient of an important commission by the Gilbert Trust to create a response to historic gold ewer from The Gilbert Collection and its restitution to Turkey. Her artwork Place to Place is displayed at the V&A Museum, London.